Eric Cantor’s Got a Fever, and the Only Prescription Is Repealing Obamacare*

As we mentioned previously, there is no time like the present—and the past and future!—for Republicans to hold yet another symbolic vote to repeal Obamacare. “The 37th time won’t be the charm,” The New York Timesreports in a deliciously undermine-y piece about the undertaking.

The repeal vote, which is likely to occur Thursday, will be at least the 43rd day since Republicans took over the House that they have devoted time to voting on the issue. To put that in perspective, they have held votes on only 281 days since taking power in January 2011. That means that since 2011, Republicans have spent no less than 15 percent of their time on the House floor on repeal in some way.

Frankly that figure seems . . . low. Let’s peer-review the Times’s math by tallying up the other ways Republicans have spent their time on the House floor.